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T. 0. BELDING. WATER CONDUCTOR PIPE.

Patented Aug. 5, 1890.

ATTORNEY 3 UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

THOMAS C. BELDING, or CANTON, onto, ASSIGNOR TO THE CANTON STEELROOFINGOOMPANY, on SAME PLACE.

WATER-CONDUCTOR PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,882, dated August5, 1890.

Application filed September 6, 1889. Serial No. 323,203. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. BELDING, a citizen of the United States,residing at Canton, in the countyof Stark and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ater-ConductorPipes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, [0 making a part of this specification, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon in which- Figure 1 is a view showing a portionof the water-conductor pipe properly attached to a building. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of a portion of the pipe, showing a part of the pipebroken away to illustrate the joint. Fig. 8 is a transverse section ofthe water-pipe, showing the same expanded. Fig. 4 is a transversesection of a water-pipe, showing its side flange 2o properly formed andits cap attached. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the pipe, showingthe outer edges of its flanges bent at right angles and the capdetached. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the cap attached. Fig. 7

is a similar view showing the flange-seam properly formed and .a supportor stay properly attached. a support or stay, showing a screw-threadedshank and its securing-wedge. Fig. 9 is a 0 detached view of a supportor stay, showing a nail-shank and its securing-screw. Fig. 10 is an edgeview of a support or stay.

The present invention has relation to water-conductor pipes; and itconsists in the pe- 3 5 culiar construction hereinafter described, and

particularly pointed out in the claim.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the water-pipe, which may beof any desired form in cross-section, and is provided with the sideflanges A. A portion of the outer edges of the side flanges A are bentat 5 right angles to themselves, at which time the cap B is slipped overthe right-angled portions, as illustrated in Fig. 6, said cap B be ingslid or slipped endwise over said rightangled portions, at which timethe right-angled portions of the flanges A, together with the cap B, arebent against the flanges A as Fig. 8 is a detached view of' illustratedin 3, 4, and 7. thereby forming beads upon each side of the flanges, andat the same time securely and firmly locking the cap B to the flanges A.

For the purpose of forming an eyen joint, the cap'B extends only towithin a short distance of one end of each section, as illustrated inFig. 2, and the flanges A, extending beyond the cap B, are insertedbetween the flanges A of the adjacent section, the end of the sectionprovided with the shortened cap, being slipped into the adjacent sectionuntil the ends of the cap B meet, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

For the purpose of attaching the pipe-sections A together, one end ofthe flanges A are tapered, as shown at D, Fig. 2, and the cap B extendedonly to the beginning of the tapered portion D, thereby leaving said ta-7o pered portions D in such a position that they can be easily enteredbetween the flanges A at the opposite end of the adjoining section A.

It will be seen that by my peculiar construction of the seam proper abead or hem will be formed upon each side of the completed seam, therebyenabling me to securely attach the support or stay upon either side ofthe seam proper.

In attaching the supports or stays O to the walls of a building itfrequently happens to be very inconvenient to attach to one side of theseam proper, and thereby rendering it almost impossible to attach thesupports or stays to seams having a head or hem only on one side of theseam.

In the drawings, two classes or kinds of supports or stays are shown-onehaving the screw 61 for securely attaching the stay to the seam, theother kind of stay being securely attached 0 by means of the key orwedge d.

It will be understood that the openings D should be large enough toreceive the completed seam.

It will be seen that by uniting the flanges A at their outer edges thepipe A will be free to expand in the event Water becomes frozen in saidpipe, the flanges A parting, as illustrated in Fig. 3. It will also beseen that the strain of the cap B will come at the point X when the pipeis expanded, said point being at a place where no sharp bend of thevided with the standing flanges A, having beads formed upon the outerportions of said flanges, the cap B, folded With said standing flangesA, and the tapered portions D located below and extending beyond the capB, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

' In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS C. BELDING.

Witnesses:

E. G. LANE, F. N. BOND.

